CONSEEVATION COMMISSION. 75 



cases, which gives the division an average of nineteen cases per 

 protector; a gross recovery of $2,749.95, with an average recovery 

 per case of $23.76 ; a total cost of $2i24.20, with an an average cost 

 per case of only $1.92. The average cost per case of $1.92 shows 

 the efficiency of the protectors in handling their cases without a 

 large cost to the State. 



CANNED GAME* 



Another piece of good work which has had a far-reaching effect 

 was the eliminating from the New York market of the sale of 

 canned game. The department was able through the verdict given 

 in the Andujar case before Judge Gerard of the Supreme Court 

 to put a stop to dealers in New York selling game that had been 

 canned and was being distributed throughout the entire State. 

 The birds that were being used for canning purposes came from 

 North Carolina and Virginia, and thousands of those canned 

 were being sold and distributed in New York city. The Franco- 

 American Company are no longer canning any game. Under the 

 Bayne bill it would be impossible for them to sell any of those 

 goods, but at the time the case was taken up the Bayne bill was 

 not thought of. 



Mr. Osborne who was Commissioner at that time, also, dis- 

 missed those canned goods cases, which were being prosecuted by 

 the protectors of the Metropolitan and Long Island Division. 



THE TAGGING OF GAME. 



The so-called Bayne Law prohibiting the sale of native game 

 in New York has devolved upon the department many new and 

 arduous duties. This law is one of the best game protective 

 measures ever passed. Each species of imported game must have 

 a tag indicating that the importation agents have tagged and 

 passed upon the shipment, and found its contents not to belong to 

 our native species. The tagging of shipments of game imported 

 from without the United States into the ' State of New York has 

 entailed new routine and additional work, and by the system 

 adopted the department can now put its finger upon any ship- 

 ment of game in the State of New York made at any given date. 



